Plus, Kate and William could hardly have picked a worse time for their luxury vacation to a resort in Noonu atoll.
Local paper HaveeryOnline reports that the royal couple are known to be spending their vacation at a resort in Noonu atoll.
First, you would have to decide that the atoll was a viable option.
Once more he raised the glass to his eye and gazed toward the inlet of the atoll.
Sanders knew of it, and said they passed it still closer on their way to the atoll.
And search they did, atoll after atoll, until at the end of an hour they were rewarded.
With this chart a landlubber could have gone straight to the atoll.
For a trifling sum I could have chartered a schooner and sought the atoll.
The atoll is known, but uncharted, because it is far outside the routes.
A vast rumbling crash shook the coral foundations of the atoll.
1620s, atollon, from Malayam atolu "reef," probably from adal "closing, uniting." Popularized in present form by Darwin's writings.
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atoll A coral island or series of coral islands forming a ring that nearly or entirely encloses a shallow lagoon. Atolls are surrounded by deep ocean water and range in diameter from about 1 km (0.62 mi) to over 100 km (62 mi). They are especially common in the western and central Pacific Ocean and are believed to form along the fringes of underwater volcanoes. Compare barrier reef, fringing reef. |
